Ive is going to roll out a Post-phone era iPhone, no screen, just a hunk of machined aluminium and glass that vibrates slightly to tell you your having a call, which you wont be able to take on the device itself, because thats a feature no one uses there mobile phone for anymore, but its ok, because it will cost $2000 plus $100 a month with a contact for the life of you , your children and your grandchildren's life span.

ive gone back to carrying a plain old non-smart phone , it makes calls, texts and has the battery life of a week not a day.. for all the stuff i used to do on my "smart phone", well, im moving that to a 7" android tablet because it fits in my jacket pocket and i can carry that around for the day for browsing and email, and the larger screen is great.

iPhone, even with the slightly taller screen, is just too small to do everything that the smartphone has evolved into, and the iPad Mini, they just missed out on that being the right size for jacket pockets,

an iPhone every 8-6 months or less is going to pee people off no end, unless the two year contracts drop back down to 12 months but the prices stay the same.

There have been few hints about what might be expected in iOS 7 and the next generation iPhone, though there have been persistent rumors of Apple investigating the use of Near Field Communication for payments.

While we have "few hints" about iOS 7, we can rest assured that it will be revolutionary and magical. My guess is that Apple stores will have special POS stations where customers will be able to scan their purchases and tap a payment point with their iPhones to complete the transaction.

It will be so revolutionary and magical that customers will want to buy apple stuff just to get a chance to use it, with lines forming outside Apple Stores the night before the debut.

I think that iOS 7 will also update existing stuff with cosmetic changes and other minor/major tweaks. Easier ways to buy stuff from the online iStore using your iOS device maybe? iTunes further integrated into third-party social networks? Fewer skeuomorphisms ?

I always thought Ive delt more on the hardware design side. And less on the software side. But I could be wrong.

Ive was given ownership of UI design when Forstall was let go.

http://9to5mac.com/2012/12/06/tim-co...sung-and-more/
On Jony Ive and his new role at the company:
Jony [Ive, senior vice president of industrial design], who I think has the best taste of anyone in the world and the best design skills, now has responsibility for the human interface. I mean, look at our products. (Cook reaches for his iPhone.) The face of this is the software, right? And the face of this iPad is the software. So itís saying, Jony has done a remarkable job leading our hardware design, so letís also have Jony responsible for the software and the look and feel of the software, not the underlying architecture and so forth, but the look and feel.

__________________"Terrorism is horrible and must be stopped. All of us must do everything we can do to stop this craziness. These people shouldn't exist. They should be eliminated."ó Tim Cook 

I got it! Instead of fixing OS X and iOS bugs, lets speed up the release cycles. Who cares if 10.7 and 10.8 are right awful when we can brush them under the rug with a "new" and "magical" update! Let's lower the price too, instead of $19.99 we'll make it $19.98! Now it's even more affordable!